x402 is a big deal that will clean up internet slums and rewrite the business model of the internet with crypto. Since AI has risen are you noticing that regular websites have become ad-slums? They were bad before but now they're not even worth visiting. The business model of the internet is ads. That's why data has been free to use over the past 3 decades. But the open internet has become popups, banner ads, and cookie consent windows - the eyeball theft is increasingly desperate while the content gets worse - why should i go to media website xyz to read AI generated content wrapped in clickbait titles. People have stopped visiting the slums - they just use AI chatbots. The social media apps contain the ads somewhat so they're still usable but they've become noisy in another way - overrun by bots and outrage algorithms - the apps could curtail this but think of the lost ad revenue. They won't do it. There's places of refuge like substack, which run on fees directly to creators instead of ads. A pay to consume model. x402 supercharges pay to consume. AIs are freeriding content and data - they're taking the value without paying for it. The slums get worse. Dead internet theory. x402 is how AI's can pay to consume and rewrite the internet's business model - microtransactions cryptopayments for data using stablecoins or any cryptocurrency. All abstracted from the user. You pay 20 a month for ChatGPT, now it's 20 a month plus 8.45 in x402 fees depending on the data services that month. A utility bill for data. Intelligence as a service. Data providers get paid and are incented to create more data, websites slums go away and are rebuilt for machines, everyone on the planet gets cheap access to intelligence. AI is the mediator. Crypto is the financial layer. This is probably the real Web 3 we've been waiting for.(RYAN SΞAN ADAMS - rsa.eth 🦄)